cdirkx

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The Road That Couldn't Be Built(en.wikipedia.org)
12 points by cdirkx 18d ago|3 comments
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by cdirkx 2mo ago
Somehow I was able to place a pin in Quebec, which resulted in a ray of 2058 miles to the USA northwest
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Hacking the bureaucracy to get stuff done (2020)(zainrizvi.io)
1 points by cdirkx 2mo ago|0 comments
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by cdirkx 3mo ago
I did immediately consider setting up a prediction market willpayfornoreasonpayout.com
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by cdirkx 3mo ago
It doesn't even need to be government-run, we just need the right incentives. I've seen proposals for making some kind of data loss insurance mandatory to compensate victims. The insurance companies would then conduct audits which
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by cdirkx 5mo ago
Yes, they are immutable. It's only possible to "yank" a specific version, which will prevent new dependencies, but it will still be available for download for existing dependencies. https://doc.rust-lang.org/c
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by cdirkx 8mo ago
The argument is that Silksong will completely absorb any potential market for you new indie game had during that period. People will be too busy playing another game, leading to poor numbers during launch. It's hard to recover from tha
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by cdirkx 11mo ago
The problem is that technology exponentially increases the negative effects of bad actors. The worst a sociopath could do in the stone age was ruin his local community; while today there are many more dystopian alternatives.
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by cdirkx 1y ago
I don't think this is unique to code, but a limitation of filesystems in general. You could make the same argument for photos: I want them sorted by date, by tag, by person in the image, by location. I can do this in Lightroom or my &q
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by cdirkx 1y ago
By explicitly being obviously a scam, scammers can preselect for the most gullible people
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by cdirkx 2y ago
Quite some years back I worked with JetBrains MPS which used a "projectional editor" instead of a text editor. It was pretty neat to be able to enter "code" as mathematical expressions, or even state machine tables or f
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by cdirkx 2y ago
As a secondary effect it kind of is; the general assumption still is that the slop-generating AI will need a lot of power to train, so there is surprisingly a lot more private investment into fusion and fission innovation in recent years.
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by cdirkx 2y ago
Training was considered to be "bad sportmanship" in the early days of soccer, when it was amateur gentlemen sport clubs playing against each other.
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by cdirkx 2y ago
The "install -y" pattern is kind of similar. Various tools have as a default that it gives a list of packages that would be installed, and then ask for confirmation.
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by cdirkx 2y ago
A couple of years ago there were news articles that the pentagon has a "lasers that can identify people in a crowd from 200m away based on their heart rate signatures". No idea if that's true or overblown, but it doesnt seem
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by cdirkx 2y ago
Nah I've seen this happen IRL. In this system "configuration" was read out of tables in a word document, processed via XSLT transformations and eventually it would spit out a huuuuge single C# document (recent "improveme
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by cdirkx 3y ago
I agree LaTeX has it's uses, but... markdown can also do this trivially. See for example the Rust Book [1], and `cargo test` automatically runs example code in markdown doccomments. [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable&
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by cdirkx 4y ago
It sound a lot better than what we had when I worked at a fastfood restaurant: every location remote desktoping to some overloaded server in the regional office, so simple things like printing an inventory list would involve a lot of waitin
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by cdirkx 4y ago
I have put a ton of hours into Crusader Kings III. It is less complicated than other grand strategy games, but the real fun is leaning into the generative story aspect and roleplaying as your family throughout generations. It also has a gre
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by cdirkx 4y ago
One of the reasons 'City' is notable, is because it is just so big. The first time I heard about was in a video "Monumentality" [1], which explores why humans throughout history have tried to make monuments; big things,
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by cdirkx 4y ago
"What is yellow and if you get it in your eye you die?" "A train" (context, in the Netherlands all the large intercity trains are yellow)
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by cdirkx 4y ago
From a mathmatical perspective: does the assumption that "any line of sight from Earth must end at the surface of a star" hold? There are countable infinite number of stars, and uncountable number of places in the night sky (I thi
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by cdirkx 4y ago
Your body and genetics, it takes a really long time to evolve a different body (thousands of generations), but it takes very little time to update culture (couple of generations).
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by cdirkx 5y ago
I'm in a similar situation. From what I could find the easiest way to resolve the issue is to report the original transaction ID [1], if you still have access to it. They list the instructions for PayPal: > The PayPal transaction ID
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Why doesn't it make sense? I believe emotions do play a role in the courts. A criminal doesn't get punished for nothing, they get punished _so they don't commit the same crime again_. Judges take emotions into account to dete
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by cdirkx 5y ago
I agree with almost everything, but was curious about > Skip to the beginning or the end of the video. What critical use does skipping to the end of a video have?
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by cdirkx 5y ago
How is this different from saying "We shouldn't cross bridges that we haven't vetted as structurally sound."? I don't expect everyone to have an architectural degree, as well as the time and resources to verify ever
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by cdirkx 5y ago
With flat-earthers, anti-5G, anti-vaxxers etc. I have always thought about it like the efficiency-stability tradeoff: From a "survival of the group" perspective, it is usefull risk-spreading to have a small percent of your populat
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by cdirkx 5y ago
> Because the book remains on-chain, the book does not die, but crosses the boundary of physical to digital. It reminds me of the video game SOMA, where people upload a brain-scan of themselves to live on after some catastrophe, essentia
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by cdirkx 5y ago
Knowing who is related too closely to you can be a problem on a small island, the comment was possibly referencing the Icelandic dating-app that tracks if you share a grandparent with someone you meet in a bar[1]; a feature the app itself c

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